34.8% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Willoughby · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Willoughby
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
More than a third of people in Willoughby were born overseas, placing it among the most internationally diverse areas of its kind. This high level of migration is reflected in a population where Chinese ancestry is particularly common, held by 15.3% of residents.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English and Australian are the most common ancestries at 29.3% and 26.5%, followed by Chinese at 15.3% and Irish at 11.0%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 34.8% of residents were born outside Australia, which is well above the 29.3% seen in New South Wales and the 27.7% national figure. While 62.1% were born in Australia, the most common overseas birthplaces are China (4.6%) and England (4.4%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Willoughby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14320/willoughby/topic/ancestry-heritage